Flat robots and changing weight...

[WhamettNuht]

Hi all
Im currently working on a new Roaming Robots AI-Pack.
Im having some trouble with Whirlpool.
1-How do you make a robot as flat as possible (I know about the slider on the side, but i want him to be flatter)
2-He's in at middleweight, and i noticed that the stock SaberTooth is a middleweight, but he is acctuatly a heavyweight!
How do you make a robot lighter with out getting rid of components. (I want him to be lightweight)
Thanks all!
Matt

[Condor33]

You know how if you push the slider down as far as it can go, and then keep pulling, the top of the robot vibrates? Well, the faster you pull down the harder it vibrates, except there's a limit to how fast you can go. However, you can use this to kind of "bounce" your chassis to be even flatter.

[Urjak]

If you put the slider at the very top, then press the VERY bottom, the slider will go pretty much as low as it can get.

[Clickbeetle]

Or you can do it how I made Tornado Mer and Ruiner ultra-flat in DSL.

Open up the .bot file in Notepad++ or some sort of hex editor (XVI32 is another one).

Right after the name is "Class: x" where x=0 (LW), 1 (MW), 2 (HW), or 19658784 (None).  That's easy enough to change to make your bot a different weight class.

Changing the height is a bit trickier.  It's easiest if you first make the bot as flat as possible in the bot lab (just click the bottommost pixel of the height slider).  If you do that, then the height of the bot SHOULD be 0.338182.  If it is, then you can just do a Find/Replace and replace all instances of "0.338182" with "0.25" or whatever you want the new height to be.

Note that you can't do this in regular Notepad.  If you do, it will corrupt the .bot file and it won't work anymore.  You need a hex editor to edit the file safely.

[WhamettNuht]

I will try that, when my computer virus is fixed.
All of my programmes have been wiped off, even my internet.
On my dads Laptop.
Warning to you all, on Hamachi, beware of hahaha, he gave me a virus.
Just wanring you all.
Now i know why when i tried to edit one of my old robots bot files to lower the weight, everything went weird!
When i lower the weight, will my bot be faster?

[Naryar]

When i lower the weight, will my bot be faster?

Yes, and this is common sense.

No, seriously, even a n00b (that you aren't) won't dare to ask that

EDIT: and i proved it with Newton's 2nd law.

[System32]

Yes, but at the cost of health.

[Naryar]

Yes, but at the cost of health.

Yep. The smaller the chassis, the weaker it is.

[Madiaba]

Wham, some more detail. Use Notepad++. Make BU.
 
If your bot is 'square', then it will look like this at the beginning of the bot file (All of this is the display mesh [around line 20]):
4
600 400
600 600
400 600
400 400
4
600 400
600 600
400 600
400 400
0.138182 12
true
 
It describes 2 sets of 4 vertices (top and bottom), and the location of each vertex.
The 0.138182 is the display height.
 
So,
1. Copy this number.
2. Put the cursor back above this section in the bot file.
3. Choose 'Replace' under the Search menu.
4. Paste in this number.
5. Type in the new number (height) you want it changed to.
6. Replace all (as CB said).
7. Save file.
 
Then Import the moded bot back into the workshop. Open and wala!
Shrimp.bot.

[WhamettNuht]

Im not a n00b!
I was just wondering, thats all.
And what if my robot has more than 4 sides?
And, by the way, i have a habit of correcting people generally, its Voi-La, not wala (Sorry, had to get that out of my system!)

[Madiaba]

And what if my robot has more than 4 sides?

Here Wham, this is a round bot with 15 vertices(points). Since you're not a noob you can figure out the right number, and then repeat the process described above. (Hint: Look right above the "true".)
15
0 500
44 296
166 128
346 24
553 2
751 66
905 206
990 396
990 603
905 793
750 933
553 997
346 975
166 871
44 703
15
0 500
44 296
166 128
346 24
553 2
751 66
905 206
990 396
990 603
905 793
750 933
553 997
346 975
166 871
44 703
0.6 56
true
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And, by the way, i have a habit of correcting people generally, its Voi-La, not wala

[/COLOR][/COLOR]It depends where your from, Wham. ...I happen to know a few languages myself.
 
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[WhamettNuht]

Orly?
Im just learning the 2, French at school, and Portuguise in my spare time!

[Naryar]

For being precise it's Voilà. If i remember well, English doesn't use stresses like we have (é,è,à...)

[Madiaba]

Wham, I'm not a 'flamer' per say. But it seems your more interested in correcting american slang, than the coding I'm trying to help you with. So you can do it yourself. Most others here are more prone to appreciate the help.
 
 
FYI: I happen to know some French, as some here can attest; including much of Latin from which voir is derived (videre). Oh my, did you notice; the French changed the word from the correct Latin. Well words change as they spread to different cultures (etymology). But as long as you relieved yourself and 'got it out of your system', then I hope you feel better. And while your looking up original root words and meanings,you might check the definition of a Freudian term "anal-retentive", where sometimes we focus on one-little-thing while missing the over-all picture.

[ACAMS]

I know french......I used to watch Pepé Le Pew all the time.

[Naryar]

I know french......I used to watch Pepé Le Pew all the time.

ORLY?

Show us then:-D

[ACAMS]

 
 

[Naryar]

C'est tout?

(is that all?)

[Serge]

It's:

Voilà.

Period.

[Serge]

C'est tout?

(is that all?)

Oui, c'est tout. T'es francais?